terça-feira, 10 de novembro de 2009

The eighties were marked by intense popular participation. It was the resumption of large mass demonstrations.Crowds took to the streets after many years of silence, years of repression of social movements, caused by the military dictatorship. In the early popped many strikes in the country overall, but when we marked the scene and has influenced other over Brazil would be a strike by workers of the ABC more precisely in S. Bernardo do Campo held by employees of automakers that region . The metallurgic school and did a lot of history with the emergence of a new unionism without peleguismo. Another movement was the very expression of Direct Elections Now, who took charge of Brazil. In all capital crowds took to the streets asking for direct elections for president. Many rallies with the participation of leading politicians, artists and especially the people. Eighties were also a lot of musicality, especially rock bands. In politics there was a great event ending the decade, the first directly elected president of the republic after more than 20 anos.Isto was beautiful with democracy back, but who won did not convince. It was the victory of depoliticized and television. This was a decade which saw the Brazilian nation reborn democracy in Brazilian soil at the hands of its people. There have always been those eager to gain ground, took the time to resurrect the political scene. Years were marked by a lot of hope on the one hand and a lot of disbelief on the other. There were those who after years of silence and a lot of repression had lost hope because of the years that did not form any leadership, so there was scarce a generation of leaders. There was much political unrest.

The Menudo was a phenomenon in Latin America, in Brazil, for example, drew millions of teenagers (read girls) from all walks of life, which formed thousands of fan clubs, to an extent compared to only Beatlemania in the world. The Menudo in the 1980s was the band's visibility in the Brazilian media, the boys Puerto Ricans appeared to most of the time on TV, radio, magazines, newspapers, in short all the press for specific celebrities was with the artistic phenomenon Menudo. At this time the menudos of Puerto Rico came to close the most expensive hotels in the country only for his staff, the shows could only be achieved in the larger stadiums in major Brazilian cities, due to the huge size of the audience, and products like shirts, badges, albums, posters, etc.. sold so much that the group would hold only the sale of these, not to mention the concerts and albums.

The anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela, who presided over South Africa after the apartheid regime.Apartheid was officially established in South Africa in 1948 by the Nationalist Party (Nationalist Party) who rose to power and blocked the integration policy that was being practiced by the central government.

The Nationalist Party represented the interests of white elites, specifically minority boere. After 1948, the system of racial segregation peaked. Were abolished definitely some political and social rights that still existed in some provinces of South Africa.

Racial differences were legally codified in order to classify the population according to the social group they belonged to. Segregation took enormous extension permeating all space and social relations. Marriages between whites and blacks were banned.

Blacks could not hold the same transportation used by the whites, could not reside in the same neighborhood and not do the same work, among other restrictions. Whites came to control about 87% of the country, what was left was composed of independent territories, but very poor, social groups left to non-whites.

Decline of apartheidApartheid is the only case history of a system in which racial segregation has taken an institutional dimension. This situation set the South African government as a dictatorship of the white race.

In the 1970s, the government of South Africa tried in vain to find formulas that would ensure some international legitimacy. However, both the United Nations (UN) and the Organization of African Unity voted numerous resolutions condemning the regime.

In the course of 70 years in South Africa witnessed numerous violent social upheavals and promoted by the black majority, but severely repressed by the white elite. Under the government of hardliners, led by Peter. W. Botha (1985-1988), tried to eliminate opposition to the white government and the race riots were harshly repressed.

However, social upheaval and intensified international pressure. In 1989, Frederic. W. de Klerk, became president. In 1990, the new president leads the South African regime to a change that puts an end to apartheid. That same year, the black leader Nelson Mandela, who since 1964 serving a sentence of life imprisonment, is released. In the first free elections took place in 1993, Mandela was elected president of South Africa and ruled from 1994 to 1999> alterar

A dream come true. In January 1985, when the City of Rock opens its gates to an audience of 1,380 million people - equivalent to 5 Woodstocks - nobody imagined, yet, the dream conceived by Roberto Medina would become the biggest rock event of all time. For its perfect organization, by its very high mood, the care with which it was carried out in detail: the construction of the City of Rock the coming of the great international bands. In Brazil, the mood was euphoric with the election of Tancredo Neves as President of the Republic. In the City of Rock, the fifth day was dedicated to the Brazilian people. On stage, before announcing the first band, the presenter opened the evening saying, "We believe that will change." More than just a rock festival, Rock in Rio I, and put Brazil on the route of the major international shows, showed that the harmony was possible. Were 10 days, 90 hours, 5400 minutes of great music and emotion. All in one direction, one voice, one song.